“Samantha Pinto grew up with art as her first language — drawing, colour, and imagination were the places she learned to breathe. After losing both of her parents, that world fell quiet. She learned to carry her grief in private, to hold memories inside her body, and to move through life without a place to set them down.

 

I Confess is where she finally lays them to rest — and lets herself exhale.

 

Through poetry and her own hand-drawn artwork, Samantha speaks the kind of truth that lives in the chest, in the throat, in the quiet places therapy can’t always reach. Her work explores grief, abandonment, abuse, silence, and the ache of growing up alone with the weight of it all.

 

This book is not about being “over” the pain.

It is about letting it out — letting it breathe — and no longer carrying it alone.”